Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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Greek

/ɡɹiːk/ adjective, proper noun, noun, verb

Forms Greeker Greekest Greeks Greeking Greeked Gr. Greeke

  1. adjective Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.
  2. adjective (figurative, colloquial) Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
  3. adjective (US, not comparable) Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, or (uncommon) honor societies.
  4. proper noun The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
  5. proper noun The written form of these languages.
  6. proper noun A surname.
  7. noun (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent. “The Greeks believed the sun went round the earth.”
  8. noun (uncountable) Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
  9. noun (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
  10. noun (uncountable, figurative, metonymic, colloquial) Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
  11. noun (countable, US, metonymic, colloquial) A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority. “Was Joe a Greek in college?”
  12. noun (countable, archaic, slang) A cunning rogue.
  13. noun (countable, archaic, slang) A merry fellow.
  14. noun (uncountable, slang) Anal sex.
  15. verb (obsolete) To cheat at cards.
  16. verb (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
  17. verb (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.
  18. verb (transitive) To obscure a corporate logo that has not been permitted for use in a production.

Synonyms

incomprehensible used for foreign speech or text technical jargon or advanced subjects Grecian Greco- Hellenic Helleno- gibberish lorem ipsum dummy placeholder text used in greeking anal sex Greeke Hellene Hellenic language

Etymology

Inherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii.
Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.

Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends.
  2. noun A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
  3. noun A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang]

Etymology [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. : cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “Greek”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details